Rotten PR sites (how do you spot 'em?)

Hi

I've heard some talk about web-sites which boast up their PR (after the first update their PR jumps way up), but eventually lose it completely.

There is a way of spotting those type of sites by examining yahoo's siteexplorer results.

Do you know what you have to look for?

 

There are sites with PR 0 that get thousands of targeted visitors per day, so PR (pagerank) is not the whole truth.Google looks at other things as well when ranking a sites value.I would check for incoming links from trusted sites, well known blogs, forums and so on.

 

Nice thank you

 

This should help explain things. You need to watch out for stuff like blog posting services on DP because folks pick up domains that have been dropped but will in fact loose their pr pretty quickly.

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

What do you mean dropped?

 

I would think if they lose pr it's because they stop advertising, building on the site.

GD

 

A dropped domain is a domain that is just that, dropped by the owner, not paid for, abandoned, etc. folks try to grab a bunch at once , call it a network of blogs and sell article placement on them. Its quite the racket around here unfortunately.

In most, if not all cases, when you pick up a dropped domain google wipes the pr. I have seen a few instances where if the content stays almost identical you wont get dinged. However, much like selling a domain to someone the pr will get zero'd

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

When google finds out that a transfer of a domain took place they will remove the PR?

Thank you, I suspected that, but you confirmed it.

So there is no way to keep the PR of the site if it's being transferred?

How do you find out if the domain just got transferred?

 

I do not think google drop PR when the domain gets sold, otherwise no one would be able to sell their website as business if that was the case.

I think the PR drops usually when google notices that the content has changed drastically. i.e. if the buyahotrod.com website suddenly becomes a link farm pointing to everything and everything, not just cars. But it takes a while for this to happen, in the meantime the spammers will try and make you buy a link on their temporary pr3 website.

Another ploy would be for them to make you link to their website in exchange for a link from their dropped domain website.

One way of spotting this is to use the way back machine website here
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

which has taken snapshots of websites over time.

 

Nice!

I'm surprised though, this is a pretty important subject. People should know these things.

Any more advice on the subject?

 

There a cool plugin for Firefox NoDoFollow is good for plugin's and checkpagerank.net for vaild PR.